This place is full of the French

Everywhere I turn, everyone is French. That's all on that topic. Probably not worth a heading.

So, New Years Eve - Claire was rotten with her cold, so when Dylan went to bed at about 6, so did she. Kev went to his brother's place, I was invited, but decided to stay at Claire's and watched a movie. Was in bed by 11. New Year's in London! Actually, it seems everyone I have talked to did very little for the New Year, so I don't feel quite so bad!
I'm not sure what I last wrote, so I may have missed a day, but I'm going to do a speedy catch up of the last couple of days and leave it there. May fill in details at a later point. May not. Who knows?
New Years Day, thought it would be quiet around, perhaps people nursing hangovers and the like, so I headed in to the London Eye. Got off at Westminster and was marching across the river when I realised the street was blocked off. I thought it might have been from the fireworks the night before, but there was a parade! I went, tried to look, too crowded, got a few weird photos (there were people in olden time costumes and cheerleaders. Who knows what was going on?), snapped Big Ben and the like, and headed to the Eye. It was packed. I paid a bit extra for a fast track ticket, (got served by an annoying smarmy think-I'm-so-funny person that I had trouble humouring) which allowed me to not queue for 40 minutes for a ticket and then an hour in the cold to get on, well worth it, I reckon, and went on the eye. Fantastic. really amazing views, got some fab photos, loved it.
After that, I went into the Dali exhibition which was nearby, and it was amazing. Absolutely tonnes of drawings and sculptures, so much that I left some behind because I was starting to feel very surreal myself! Met Heather, we wandered a little, then went to Tottenham Court Road, to a place called The George where we shared a few lagers and had a fabulous catch up. Was really nice - and probably just as well that it takes a while to get back out to Chingford so I was relatively sober before getting to bed!
2nd - Had a lazy morning getting up, playing with Dylan and the like. Then headed to The Globe theatre, which was fabulous - had a tour, wish there was a play to see, although couldn't really stand the cold for that long. After this, I headed to the Tate Modern, but it was awfully crowded, so I am going to try again next week sometime. I then went in to Oxford Street to look at the sales - wanted to look for a couple of DVDs, ended up buying 5 seasons of Shameless for a stupidly cheap price, having spent about an hour posting stuff home in the morning, seems silly to be buying anything, literally couldn't resist! Thought I'd take a relaxing stroll down Oxford Street - stupid thought, there's no such thing as relaxing during the post xmas sales! Headed home, Claire and I watched the launch of Celebrity Big Brother. Apparently they are celebrities - I knew LaToya Jackson, Coolio, Mini -me and Ulrika Johnson. The rest - several even Claire struggled with! Celebrity? Pfft.
Right, I've booked my tickets for Edinburgh for tomorrow, am going to meet Dukes at the Portrait Gallery for lunch and to check out the Annie Liebowitz exhibit. Nice.